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John & Ken … and Daniel

Daniel Guss — a local animal-rights champion, a perennial critic of L.A. Animal Services Director Ed Boks, and an occasional contributor to the Daily News, will be appearing on “The John and Ken Show” today sometime around 4 pm (KFI 640 AM, or you can listen live online here). The subject: Guss’ op-ed in today’s Daily News shredding Boks’ handling of a proposed “Pit Bull Academy” in L.A. — in which ex-cons would “reform” aggressive pit bulls.

To quote Guss;

When the city of Los Angeles started opening new shelters this year, some old shelters became vacant. Torres thought it would be great to try to expand her man- and dog-saving program, and asked the city if she could run a trial program in one of its now-vacant shelters.

Only one thing could spoil this home run of an idea: if it was touched by the inept hand of a city administrator who didn’t do his homework.

That’s exactly what happened last Friday, when the City Council scratched the surface to see if Ed Boks, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s controversial shelter general manager, had his act together.

John and Ken, of course, love stories of government incompetence, especially ones linked to Villaraigosa, so this one’s a natural for them. It also helps that Guss plugged their show in his oped:

By the time that The John & Ken Show hit the afternoon-drive airwaves on KFI-AM (640), the strong merits of the pit-bull program were off the radar, as the show’s hosts pondered whether “bonehead” Boks “had been drinking.”